When I used to teach computer classes in adult school back in the previous millennium, I noticed that there were two kinds of computer users: i.e., the abstract and the concrete. The former could fish the menus and extrapolate to solve their problem. The latter could (or would not) not. At one of the last computer shows I went to I LLOL at a fellow's T-shirt. It read, "No, I will not fix your computer!"

My daughter works for the Chicago school system, and one teacher called for help in fixing her computer. It seems she ran over her laptop with her car! (I am guessing, unlike the cartoon, it was an accident. )

In case you're not a "clicker," it is an example of "free verse" that he wrote for a class:

There is a loo in Sandburg HallWith random thoughts scratched in the stall.They have no flow; they make no sense,No point but minor prurience,nor rhyme; but this we must concede:They do not cost a dime to read.

Found on Randy Cassingham's "Jumbo Joke" site, in a collection of comments by politicians: "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."--President George W. Bush

I bet he stole that line from Dan Quayle.

Geoff, soon to be living in Quayle country

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. -J. Krishnamurti

I haven't worn a wristwatch for five years or so, since the strap broke and I couldn't be arsed to get it replaced.

At work and home there are plenty of clocks around, and I rarely need to know the exact time when I'm out. In any event, there are often clocks around on public buildings and in stations and so on.

I do sometimes check my mobile phone for the time like the woman in the cartoon, but, although I don't usually have to spend time searching for it in the depths of a handbag, I do sometimes find that I've forgotten to charge it.

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.

I've never heard that phrase before. I did find it in the OED Online, though, and it's first citation was from 1988:

quote:

arse, vDraft additions March 2001 trans. (in pass.). slang (chiefly Brit. and Irish English). To be willing to make the required effort; to be bothered. Usu. in negative constructions, such as can't be arsed (to do something).

1988 G. Patterson Burning your Own vii. 88 Don't forget who it was who organized the building of all this when you were too sulky to be arsed doing anything.

Yes, that's a favourite site for several of us, CW. Several people have posted links, the most recent being Bob on 25 April. I'm subscribed to it by RSS although I confess I've been rather remiss lately in not keeping up to date with posts for some weeks because of information overload.

Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.